Lemon Bass!

"Really?"

"It succeeded?"

Hawk felt a sense of wonder after ending his call with Dr. Connors and hanging up the phone.

After all, he had originally thought that Dr. Connors' regeneration experiment was unlikely to succeed in a world that only had Spider-Man and not The Amazing Spider-Man.

Who would have thought...

Hawk got up and walked out of his bedroom, thinking about the recent conversation with Dr. Connors.

Dr. Connors had been in a great mood, so he had revealed some more detailed information to Hawk.

For example, in the recent experiment with the white mice, they had originally expected the experiment to end in failure, just like the previous ones.

But then, an accident happened.

After one of the white mice was injected with the Lizard Serum, its life signals had disappeared. However, after a while, the life signals reappeared. The tail that had been severed last month due to an accident began to regrow at a visible speed after the life signs returned.

This discovery greatly excited Dr. Connors.

Hawk, on the other hand, found it quite miraculous.

But the wonder only lasted for a moment.

As Hawk walked out of his bedroom and sat down at his folding desk, he opened the used-by-beauty laptop he had bought from Skye for five hundred dollars and put the matter out of his mind.

More than whether Dr. Connors' experiment was successful, he was more concerned about the situation at Quantico Base.

Soon.

After searching for information online, Hawk's expression became strange again.

No invasion.

Just an exercise.

This was a newspaper from Washington D.C. that reported on the invasion alarm at Quantico Military Base at the time.

However, the base's spokesperson denied the invasion claim in the newspaper, stating that it was just a routine exercise that night. Unexpectedly, during the exercise, there was a building collapse accident, and more than a dozen soldiers unfortunately died.

Hmm.

Quantico had attributed everything to the exercise.

This was also normal.

As the saying goes.

That was Quantico, home to the Marine Corps, next to the FBI's Federal Police Academy, and near the CIA's Langley Headquarters. Under such circumstances, the military base would definitely not admit to being invaded, no matter what.

As for anything else...

Hawk searched around but found no useful clues.

He didn't even find any connecting keywords in any relevant reports about the young Black man's body.

Either the young Black man's body had not yet been discovered.

Or the young Black man's death was not worth the media's attention at all.

After all, every year, no, every day, many Black men died for various reasons. It was normal for a Black man with no identity to die without making a ripple.

Hawk thought for a moment, shook his head, closed the laptop, and went into the bedroom to prepare for sleep.

The next day.

Hawk was woken up by the phone.

Lying in bed, Hawk opened his eyes and saw a photo frame coming towards him. He then reached out his right hand and grabbed the phone that was charging on the nightstand.

"Hello."

"Come downstairs."

"..."

Hawk froze for less than a second, then got out of bed, put on his T-shirt, walked to the living room window, opened it, and saw Gwen standing across the street by the yellow Corolla, waving at him.

Oh.

No.

It should be girlfriend Gwen.

He still found it somewhat unbelievable.

Let me say it again.

Gwen Stacy is my girlfriend.

Hawk thought to himself, smiled, waved back at Gwen downstairs, hung up the phone, and walked towards the door.

A moment later.

Hawk appeared at the entrance of the apartment building, crossed the road, and stood in front of Gwen.

"What's up?"

"Are you free tonight? My mom invited you over for dinner."

"Uh..."

Lemon sole!

That was the first thing that popped into Hawk's mind when Gwen invited him to her house for dinner.

After all, that dish was quite famous in a way.

Hawk's thoughts raced as he looked at Gwen's expectant gaze. He thought for a moment and then nodded.

"Okay."

"It's settled then. What are you going to do now?"

"Hmm, I'm going to the library to read."

"..."

After saying that, Hawk looked at Gwen, who was silently smiling at him, and let out a laugh. "I'm really going to the library to read this time."

After all, school starts tomorrow.

It's twelfth grade, the final year of high school. If nothing unexpected happens, people from New York University will come this semester for the final evaluation and scholarship confirmation.

Even though he said he didn't even care if he could get into New York University.

But...

If he could, he still wanted to go. After all, his dream before awakening his Cosmo was to go to New York University to study law, and then find a way to become a prosecutor or even a judge.

And he had been working hard for this for the past three years.

Gwen looked at Hawk seriously, then her face bloomed into a brilliant smile.

"Let's go then."

"Go where?"

"Aren't we going to the library? I'm going to the library too. Perfect, after we finish reading, you can ride home with me. But you have to accompany me to Osborn Bio-Industry first."

"Get in the car."

Hawk looked at Gwen as she walked to the driver's side, opened the door, and beckoned him to get in. Without hesitation, he opened the passenger door and sat down.

Just as he had said.

He really planned to go to the library to read and study today.

Work and rest in balance.

In his Cosmo, the Phoenix Star Chart transformed into a phoenix, and the Gamaneon absorbed from Quantico Base swirled colorfully within the Phoenix Star Chart.

Phoenix was still fully refining Gamaneon.

The entire day, after Hawk and Gwen left Osborn Bio-Industry and arrived at the library, they stayed quietly reading.

He wanted to go to New York University.

Gwen wanted to go to Berkeley.

Yes.

Both of them were working hard for their future.

In the afternoon.

When Hawk was leaving, he checked out the books he hadn't finished reading.

When he walked out of the library, Gwen was already waiting in the car.

A man who had just quickly gone in to borrow a book and come out let out a cry as he saw a parking ticket tucked under his windshield wiper.

Hawk looked at the scene, and after getting into the car, he asked curiously, "Didn't your car get a ticket?"

Gwen shook her head and said with a smile, "Dad registered my license plate in the police system."

Hawk suddenly understood.